# latinus
## Latin

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /laˈtiː.nus/, [ɫ̪äˈt̪iːnʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /laˈti.nus/, [läˈt̪iːnus]

### Adjective

latīnus (feminine latīna, neuter latīnum, adverb latīnē); first/second-declension adjective
* Alternative letter-case form of Latīnus

#### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

#### Descendants

* → Bashkir: латынь (latınʹ)
* → Belarusian: Лацінская (Lacinskaja)
* → Bengali: লাতিন (latin)
* → Chechen: Латинан (Latinan)
* → Chinese: 拉丁 (lādīng)
* → Dutch: Latijn
* → English: Latin, Latten, Latine (obsolete)
** Jamaican Creole: Latn
* French: Latin
* → German: Latein
* → Greek: λατινικά (latiniká)
* → Hindi: लातिनी (lātinī)
* → Ingush: Латиний (Latinii)
* → Old Irish: Laiten
** Irish: Laidin
** Manx: Ladjyn
** Scottish Gaelic: Laideann
* Italian: Latino
* → Kashubian: Łacyńsczi
* Ladin: Ladino
* Ladino: לאטין
** Ladino: לאדינו
* → Lak: Латӏин (Latʼin)
* → Lithuanian: Lotynų
* → Lezgi: Латин (Latin)
* → Moksha: Латинонь (Latinoń)
* → Polish: Łacina
* Portuguese: Latim
* → Punjabi: ਲਾਤੀਨੀ (lātīnī)
* Romanian: Latin
* → Russian: Латинский (Latinskij)
* Spanish: Latín
* → Tamil: இலத்தீன் (ilattīṉ)
* → Thai: ละติน (lá-dtin)
* → Urdu: لاطینی (lātenī)
* → Welsh: Lladin

### References

* latinus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* latinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. the expression is not in accordance with Latin usage: aliquid a consuetudine sermonis latini abhorret, alienum est pure, correct Latin: incorrupta latini sermonis integritas (Brut. 35. 132) good Latin: sermo latinus (opp. sermo parum latinus) (cf. sect. VII. 2., note For the use of adverbs...) to translate from Greek into Latin: aliquid e graeco in latinum (sermonem) convertere, vertere, transferre what follows has been translated into Latin from Plato's Phaedo: ex Platonis Phaedone haec in latinum conversa sunt (ambiguous) to render something into Latin: aliquid (graeca) latine reddere or sermone latino interpretari (ambiguous) Roman literature: litterae latinae (ambiguous) acquainted with the Latin language: latinis litteris or latine doctus (ambiguous) a good Latin scholar: bene latine doctus or sciens (ambiguous) to write expositions of philosophy in Latin: philosophiam latinis litteris illustrare (Acad. 1. 1. 3) (ambiguous) (1) to speak Latin, (2) to speak good Latin (also bene latine), (3) to express oneself clearly: latine loqui (Brut. 45. 166) (ambiguous) to know Latin: latinam linguam scire or didicisse (ambiguous) to know Latin: latine scire (ambiguous) to write treatises in Latin: latine commentari (ambiguous) to render something into Latin: aliquid (graeca) latine reddere or sermone latino interpretari (ambiguous) to write good Latin: latine scribere (Opt. Gen. Or. 2. 4) (ambiguous) to introduce a new word into the Latin language: inducere novum verbum in latinam linguam
* “latinus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
* “latinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “latinus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray